Course Title: Japanese 3

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C3195

Course Title: Japanese 3

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 180.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5487

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Face-to-Face

 Term2 2008,
Term1 2010,
Term2 2010,
Term1 2011,
Term2 2011

Course Contact: Ms. Barbara White

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5211

Course Contact Email: barbara.white@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

This course makes up the year long Certificate III in Language (Japanese). Through closed and then open-ended learning activities you will establish a basis for development of communicative skills in the spoken and written language, emphasizing the former. The scripts of hiragana, katakana, and approximately 200 basic kanji will be consolidated with fthe further teaching of  100 new kanji characters. You will be able to speak and understand Japanese in a predictable, yet varied range of workplace and everyday situations.  Practical knowledge of the culture, in a wide range of personal and social situations and context will be introduced. Student-centred drilling, practical and communicative activities and tasks encourage you to be responsible for your own learning, to be creative and critical in your application of knowledge of the language to communication with people of a different cultural tradition, and to build on your knowledge and interest to a level where learning can continue in daily life.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Certificate II in Language (Japanese), up to 360 hrs prior study, or equivalent. The ability to read and write the hiragana and katakana scripts and approximately 200 kanji characters is essential.



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

LOTE 304 Japanese 3

Learning Outcomes

  1.   Provied information and advice
  2. Participate in a casual conversation with customers or colleagues
  3. Negotiate a problematic exchange
  4. Demonstrate understanding of spoken information, explanations and instructions
  5. Write routine workplace instructions
  6. Complete standard forms and routine workplace documents
  7. Demonstrate understanding of a limited range of workplace texts


Overview of Assessment

Your language skills will be assessed using speaking tasks, listening tasks, reading tasks, script tests and short written assignments. The final result is obtained by combining the results of all progressive assessment tasks (this includes class based tasks as well as tasks completed outside of class) with the mid-year and end-of-year examination. Both progressive assessment and exams cover the learning outcomes as described above.